Career Services will be available to you as a current student or as a member of the Gibbs College - Norwalk and Farmington alumni. You may contact Career Services through the general information telephone line at 203-838-4173 or through email at ktrister@gibbsnorwalk.com.

Many services are available to you. These include:

Welcome to OptimalResume®, a free service provided by the Career Center in partnership with OptimalResume.com. This service will allow the graduate to

▪ Design high-impact resumes based on your major and career goals. Easily create resumes in several formats, including Word® Compatible, Plain Text, PDF, and HTML and manage up to 5 unique resumes

▪ Include your resume in your own professional website, which you can update, deactivate, and reactivate as your career progresses All of the tools inside have been designed and customized specifically for you by career center professionals

▪ Step-by-step instructions and examples make it easy for you to create top-quality professional documents in a matter of minutes

▪ You can upload existing documents or cut and paste to save time

▪ New documents are automatically generated in multiple formats, including Rich Text, Plain Text, PDF, and HTML, so you can use them in a variety of situations

▪ Choose from thousands of styling options, including a university-preferred style

▪ Download final documents to your desktop as needed

▪ In just a few minutes, you can create your own password-protected professional website, to which you can include a link on your business card or send as a link to employers.

You may connect with OptimalResume® at https://portfolio.optimalresume.com/.

EmployOn ClientMatch Graduate Job Portal is the first and only product that instantly identifies companies that are hiring today, enabling our clients to put candidates in front of employers as soon as they are hiring.

▪ Establish relationships with more Employers
▪ Intelligent concept based searching for more accurate results
▪ Continuously search database of 7 million jobs
▪ ClientMatch collects over 75,000 new jobs a day
▪ Search tens of thousands of corporate sites....search thousands of job boards by corporate, recruiter, education, government or all
▪ Creation and download of call lists-so you can get off the internet and on the phone

You may connect with EmployOn ClientMatch via the student portal at http://my.gibbsnorwalk.edu/.

ReadyMinds Career Counseling Service will assist graduates with one-on-one career assistance.

▪ Customized distance career counseling services to students, alumni, career changers since 1997

▪ Access to and personalized attention from professionally trained, National Certified and Credentialed Counselors via telephone, online and/or private e-mail message areas

▪ Empowers and motivates individuals to choose fulfilling careers over a lifetime by making best use of their education and work related experience(s)



You may contact ReadyMinds via the student portal at http://my.gibbsnorwalk.edu/.